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Boombox (Sirius)
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Boombox was a Breakbeat
and rock remix radio station on Sirius Satellite Radio
created and programmed by DJ Liquid Todd. Notable shows on the channel included "Automatic Static" with DJ Icey
on Friday nights, an old-school lunchtime show with DJ Red Alert
, the "Flash Mash" with Grandmaster Flash
and "The Liquid Todd Show" which aired weekday afternoons.
The channel was canceled when Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Satellite Radio merged in 2008. Currently Liquid Todd hosts a two-hour speciality show with a similar format called "Boombox Radio" on the Sirius XM channel Alt Nation
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Breakbeat
In 1992, a new style called "jungalistic hardcore" emerged, and for many ravers it was too funky to dance to. Josh Lawford of Ravescene prophesied that the breakbeat was "the death-knell of rave" because the ever changing drumbeat patterns of breakbeat music didn't allow for the same zoned out,...
and rock remix radio station on Sirius Satellite Radio
Sirius Satellite Radio
Sirius Satellite Radio is a satellite radio service operating in North America, owned by Sirius XM Radio.Headquartered in New York City, with smaller studios in Los Angeles and Memphis, Sirius was officially launched on July 1, 2002 and currently provides 69 streams of music and 65 streams of...
created and programmed by DJ Liquid Todd. Notable shows on the channel included "Automatic Static" with DJ Icey
DJ Icey
DJ Icey, , is a DJ and electronic music producer, credited by Allmusic as having helped to "jump-start the increasingly fertile dance scene in and around Orlando, FL, during the '90s". E, the Incredibly Strange History of Ecstasy credits him as "the prime founder of the Funky Breaks and the Florida...
on Friday nights, an old-school lunchtime show with DJ Red Alert
DJ Red Alert
DJ Red Alert is a disc jockey on 98.7 Kiss-FM, N.Y.C., and has been recognized as a hip hop pioneer...
, the "Flash Mash" with Grandmaster Flash
Grandmaster Flash
Joseph Saddler better known as King Grandmaster Flash, is an American hip hop musician and DJ; one of the pioneers of hip-hop DJing, cutting, and mixing....
and "The Liquid Todd Show" which aired weekday afternoons.
The channel was canceled when Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Satellite Radio merged in 2008. Currently Liquid Todd hosts a two-hour speciality show with a similar format called "Boombox Radio" on the Sirius XM channel Alt Nation
Alt Nation
Alt Nation is an Alternative rock radio station on Sirius Satellite Radio channel 36 , XM Satellite Radio channel 36 and on Dish Network channel 6036. Until February 9, 2010, it was on Direct TV channel 834.Alt Nation began back in 2002, when Sirius Satellite Radio launched...
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